An professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, who has taught a course for 40 years regarding the Kennedy assassination and Oswald's New Orleansconnections, reflects on the killer's connections to the Crescent City.

THE STORY BEGINS ON OCTOBER 18, 1939. LEE HARVEY OSWALD IS BORN IN NEW ORLEANS. AT THE TIME HIS FAMILY LIVED IN A HOME ON ALVAR STREET IN THE UPPER NINTH WARD... PICTURED HERE NOT LONG AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA. OSWALD'S CHILDHOOD WAS FAR FROM STABLE...HIS FATHER DIED TWO MONTHS BEFORE HE WAS BORN...AND HIS MOTHER MOVED THE FAMILY AROUND FREQUENTLY. LIVING IN COVINGTON AND VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS WHILE IN LOUISIANA...AND SPENDING OTHER PARTS OF HIS CHILDHOOD IN DALLAS AND NEW YORK. MANY CITE THE INSTABILITY AS A REASON FOR WHY OSWALD WAS THE WAY HE WAS... BUT NOT ALL... 54:24 Lee's half brother and brother grew up in exactly the same circumstances, you know so people who say he had a troubled childhood, so did they, they grew up to be perfectly normal people 54:34 FEW LOCALS KNOW THIS STORY BETTER THAN SOUTHEASTERN PROFESSOR MICHAEL KURTZ. IN 1973 HE PROPOSED THE IDEA OF CREATING A COURSE FOCUSED SPECIFICALLY ON THE EVENTS CONNECTED TO THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THE UNIQUE IDEA STILL DRAWING STUDENTS 40 YEARS LATER. 49:32 it's an unsolved mystery as far as im concerned 49:34 AT 17 OSWALD JOINED THE MARINES... ONLY TO LEAVE A FEW YEARS LATER AND DEFECT TO THE SOVIET UNION WHERE HE MET HIS SOON-TO-BE WIFE MARINA. EVENTUALLY THE OSWALDS FOUND THEMSELVES BACK IN THE UNITED STATES AND LATER BACK IN NEW ORLEANS...WHERE WDSU CAMERAS CAUGHT OUR FIRST GLIMPSE OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD... HANDING OUT PRO-CASTRO FLIERS OUTSIDE THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE MART ON CANAL STREET. HE TALKED ABOUT IT IN AN INTERVIEW WITH WDSU. 1:30 no, sir, i'm not a communist, and I think the red herring and so forth is rather ridiculous. Now are you a marxist? Well I have studied marxist philosophy, yes sir I have. But are you a marxist? I think you did admit on an earlier radio interview. Oh I would very definitely that I am a marxist, that is correct 1:53 KURTZ SAYS THOUGH EVIDENCE LIKE THAT SHOWS OSWALD APPEARING FOR CASTRO AND COMMUNISM...IT'S ACTUALLY MORE COMPLICATED. 5514 beneath the surface, oswald associated with right wing anti communists 55:20 standup AND AS AMERICA LOOKS BACK ON THAT TRAGIC DAY IN 1963. TO PUT IT SIMPLY THERE ARE TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT... THOSE WHO BELIEVE WHAT WE'VE BEEN TOLD...AND THOSE LIKE KURTZ WHO BELIEVE THERE IS...AND ALWAYS WILL BE...MORE TO THE STORY. 51:50 that's the case, 50 years later, there's still information being covered up, we still don't know the truth about the investigation and I don't think we really will ever know the whole truth 52:00 THERE WERE MULTIPLE